It’s a beautiful design. Looks like the ring of the Home button on the iPhone.
They make so much money off of devices with designed obsolescence that they ought to spend a little bit on big capital projects that infuse some of it back into the community.
It is easy to see how profitable their stuff can be.
My grandson accidentally broke my 15.6” laptop screen, I got a new one for 50 bucks.
An iPhone screen is 100 bucks.
I don't know where you get the idea that Apple practices "designed obsolescence" but you couldn't be further from the truth. I finally retired my original iPhone from being used AS A PHONE, bought on the day they came out on June 29, 2007, after being handed down from family member to family member just over a year ago, in 2015, after EIGHT years of constant use on the original battery. It was handed down one more time to my three year old granddaughter to be used as an iPod touch, a use for which it is still being used today. . . and still on the original battery. That does not strike me as being designed for obsolescence.
No, it cannot be upgraded beyond iOS 4 or so, and that original battery is now only holding a 50% charge, but for what it does, it works.
My office just retired seven iMacs bought in mid 2007 and replaced them with new iMacs at the end of 2015. . . all of the almost nine years old, and they were all still going strong, running the Yosemite and still capable of being upgraded to El Capitan, the latest OS X operating system, but we elected to do it then because we could use the tax deductions in 2015. We also replaced four MacBook Air laptops bought in 2008, because they could no longer run the latest upgrade to our office software. . . but that might be expected of seven year old laptops. They could run the OS X, but they were too slow for the requirements of 3D radiography rendering. That is not "designing for obsolescence," syncopated.
Frankly, I've never run into an Apple product that was "designed for obsolescence." Not a single one. Can you name one, and give an example of how it was designed to be obsolete? Please?
I don't think Apple would have so many satisfied customers if they did such a practice as you accuse them of.
Ironically, by the time it’s finished, the company will be over.